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As someone who's grown up in one of those and now rearing a child in Canada, I'd like to tell you that it was an absolutely incredible place to grow up in. The urban planning is such that there's parks with kid playgrounds sprinkled between the buildings. There's ample trees. There's schools and kindergartens at walking distance where kids would often walk alone to/fro. There's convenient public transit stops. There's density that lets kids make tons of friends and always have someone to play with without "playdates." Parenting in such a social environment is so much easier than what parents face in Toronto, it's not even funny.

E: Oh and the square footage in the average commie block apt is equivalent to a large old-school 2 or 3-bedroom apartment in Toronto. Most are family-sized units.

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I mean, after we build them we can also let people do gorgeous art on them

Honestly, commieblocks arent that bad. Most of the pictures of them are cherry picked to be the unmaintained, dirty ones, and are exclusively taken in gloomy weather. The houses on the inside are usually good quality as well (though likely not well maintained anymore).

Hell, if you just painted them colourfully, they'd look nice.

Also these are not painted, where I live we have their walls painted in colours with sometimes shapes and some have big art on them. Also there are usually small parks or grass plots with trees around and playgrounds.

Ah yes so depressing and ugly that they’re featured in an architectural magazine. https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/vienna-social-housing/

I mean, it's the left-wingers who want to increase the level of education for everybody, and that's one of the things that is shown to slow population growth. It's the insane population pressures that result in the need for building stuff like that.

That isn't left wing architecture. It's USSR architecture. Don't make everything bad from that dictatorship a part of the left. The Soviet Union wasn't even real communism. Because communism wouldn't have a regime consisting of oligarchs and a dictator for example. Just because some people abused something for bad, doesn't make the thing itself bad.

But these Stalin blocks were actually built an mass to house all the nomads living in the USSR. Most people didn't have a home, electricity, running water. They used to live in tents. So even though these blocks are ugly and depressing, it made sure people didn't have to live in a tent with -40°C and Stalin was widely praised for that.

Ultra luxury apartments are usually vacant most of the time, because the owners live elsewhere and only use that property for money laundering.

I didn’t realize an expansive category of political ideologies had adopted a unified architectural language. 🤦

Critiquing the visual appearance of architecture sounds like some Woke Leftist Liberal Arts shit to me.

My parents raised me in a hole under a tree stump and it built my character. Now I'm the assistant manager at three different car dealerships. You lefties with your indoor plumbing and central air will never have this much success

Yes, there is something even more depressing than late soviet (or late Francoist, if you want a right wing equivalent) residential monsters: just look at any first world homeless camp.

Those look very similar in style to the 5-over-1s being built all over the United States. Four floors good, ten floors bad? Or does "left-wing architecture" refer to leaving the trees instead of paving every square inch of outdoor space for parking?

Seen a lot of appartments built by developers that are similar in a smaller way. I always put it down to cheapest cost and maximum profit. Nothing to do with ideology just expedience or greed.

And yet, there's more greenery around this blocks than you'd see in a US city.

The thing is, a lot of capitalist countries also used to build these, except they stopped due to outrage from real estate barons and NIMBYs losing value on their buildings.

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I mean the dark grey houses of capitalism using every square centimeter of ground are way more depressing than blocks with a lot of trees around them

I recall that picture being a photoshop of a right-wing country. So it's both fake AND fundamentally right-wing in design.